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Private History of Peregrinus Proteus, the Philosopher (1796)
Private History of Peregrinus Proteus the Philosopher - 1796 Author:Christoph Martin Wieland Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: againft him. Theoclea had made me dif- truftful. Lucian. And yet would I lay a wager, that with all thy diftruft, thou wert as well deceived again, as thou... more » hadft been impofed upon by the beautiful Callippe, the lovely Gabrias, and the divine Theoclea, when thou waft all confidence. PEREGRINE. Every thing in its time, good Lucian ! — As foori 'as the ftranger was come near enough to allow me no room to doubt that he was intending to addrefs me, I rofe up, as though I would refign o him the'feat to which he fcemed to have a prior right, and endeavoured to retire ; but like one who had firft to undo a tie that held him back. —" How Peregri- " nus,"' nus," faid the ftranger, in a tone that immediately found the way to my heart, and with a look that pierced, -like a fun- beam, into the dark recefles of my foul— " thou flyeft from thy good genius!"— At this addrefs I flood fixt, and, inftead of giving him an anfwer, collected together all the coldnefs I had in my power, to look him in the face, with an air of incredulity and furprife: but I very much doubt, that the effect was obedient to my will; for while he fpoke an awful tremor ran through all my veins,, and the involuntary aftonimment at hearing snyfelf addrefTed in my proper name, by fo extraordinary a ftranger, info fingular a fpeech, inftantaneoufly 'defeated my endeavours to make this curious being recoil with terror at my affected coldnefs. Lucian. Here we have it! B 6 PEREGRINS. chapter{Section 4PEREGRINE. " Canft thou," continued he, ih the fame engaging accents, " canft thou " believe that mere chance has brought " us together ? There is no fuch thing as " chance. We were to meet each other, " and we met."—I felt myfelf overpowered. I fat down again upon the ftone, and the ftranger feated him...« less